Monday, May 23, 2016

This past weekend our meetup group visited East Broad Top Railroad in Pennsylvania. The East Broad Top was once a short line railroad that transported coal from the mines to another railroad for transport to the end users.

Mother Nature did not really cooperate and we had a fair amount of rain, but there was plenty to shoot indoors and everyone really enjoyed this location.

We are in the early stages of planning a return trip so be sure to join our meetup if you want to be notified of our next trip.

Monday, May 16, 2016

This past weekend while my partner Denise was busy leading a Meetup in Assateague, I decided to drive out to Shenandoah National Park. My first plan was to spend the cloudy afternoon shooting waterfalls, but I lost a couple of hours due to a nail in one of my tires and the subsequent trip back to the city to get the tire repaired. I still made it to the park in plenty of time for sunset. The clouds were looking quite promising leading up to sunset, but the magical light never happened.

That’s okay, I still had plenty of time to shoot landscapes, abstracts and even do a little light painting after dark. Just a few weeks ago the park suffered a forest fire that affected over 10,000 acres. In the shot above you can see the fire damaged trees but at the same time other trees are leafing out. I have no idea what the long term damage might be to some of the trees, but to this untrained observer it looks like Mother Nature is quickly repairing the damage.

Saturday, May 7, 2016

It just occurred to me the last time I blogged was almost a month ago after wrapping up our Charleston Tour. Since then I have been super busy with our Meetup Group, and traveling the camera club lecture circuit. No complaints, it's always a blast getting out and meeting new people who share this passion we call photography!

The image above is the latest in my Motion Abstracts Series. I prefer a cloudy day for this type of work and of course try to keep the sky out of the image. Even though the tree does a nice job breaking up the boring gray sky, I decided a couple Flypaper Textures were just what I needed to take the problem with the gray sky "out of the picture", so to speak.

If you want to learn more about Textures, my partner Denise regularly lectures on textures to camera clubs in the Mid-Atlantic area. Her next lecture on Textures will be at NIH Photo Club on June 14th. If you want to check out Flypaper Textures, be sure to use our discount code to save a few bucks.